How to Remove Contacts From the Share Sheet on iPhone or iPad

The Contacts row in the Share sheet on an iPhone.

The iOS 13 and iPadOS 13 updates brought a redesigned Share sheet to iPhone and iPad. Unfortunately, the new dynamic contact shortcuts can be annoying. Here’s how you can remove them from the Share sheet.

The first row in the new Share sheet serves as a shortcut to quickly sharing something with recently-used contacts. In theory, it’s supposed to make your life easier. In practice, however, it rarely works out that way.

Right now, only contacts from AirDrop and Messages appear in this list (sorry, WhatsApp lovers).

If you rarely (or never) use the feature, it can get annoying quickly. Unfortunately, you can’t disable the contacts row, but there is a work-around. If you delete a conversation or group thread from the Messages app, it disappears from the Share sheet, as well.

This step is a bit severe, but if you want to remove a contact from the Share sheet, this is the only way. To get started, open the “Messages” app on your iPhone or iPad. Find the conversation you want to remove in the Share sheet.

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How to Enable and Use Tab Groups in Google Chrome

Group Tabs example image

Are too many tabs cluttering up your Chrome browser? Google’s working on a solution to help organize all the tabs you have open. The Tab Groups feature provides neat, color-coded labeling for all your tabs. It’s available today behind a flag.

Warning: This feature is behind an experimental flag, which means Google’s developers are still working on it. Like Google Chrome’s Clipboard sharing feature, it may be buggy, or it may change dramatically in the future. It may even be removed in a future update. We tested this feature in Google Chrome 80.

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How to Count Blank or Empty Cells in Google Sheets

Google Sheets

When you’re analyzing data in a spreadsheet, counting empty or blank cells could help you focus on specific areas. This is why functions like COUNTBLANK, COUNTIF, COUNTIFS, and SUMPRODUCT are so important in Google Sheets.

A word of warning, however. If you have a cell that contains an empty text string (“”) or has a formula that returns a similar result, this cell would be blank, but it wouldn’t technically be empty. If you want to know the number of truly empty cells, you’ll need to use a combination of the SUM, ROWS, COLUMNS, and COUNTIF functions.

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